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Sunday, August 5, 2012

DST -Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Program

I stumbled on to what seems like
an amazing opportunity for budding Indian innovators who wish to showcase their
innovation and implement it in real time- the DST-Lockheed Martin Indian innovation
Growth Program, which as the name suggests has the Department of Science of
Technology, Govt. of India as one of its key partners, besides FICCI and
University of Texas IC2.

According to the official
website, the objective of the Program is to accelerate the launch of
early-stage Indian technologies into the global market place. The list of areas
of innovation which are covered under the Program is available here.

The top applicants to the Program
who will be selected through a competitive process will receive the following benefits:

Attendance
at an Entrepreneurial Workshop focused on technology commercialization.

Automatic
enrolment in the DST - Lockheed Martin Innovator Competition, judged by an
international panel of technology and business experts. Awards will be granted
for the top prospects for commercialization in the coming year.

Also, according to the website- “The
Gold Medal winners from the DST - Lockheed Martin Innovator Competition will be
invited to work with commercialization experts from FICCI and IC2 Institute
to pursue appropriate business engagements in the U.S., India and other global
markets.”

The compendium of technologies selected between 2007 and 2011 is
available here. The list of top 30 winners for 2012 is available here.